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Alison Williams Writing I had a phone call the other day from an elderly gentleman who was trying to find an agent. I explained the process to him and then he said that he’d already published a book, but he still couldn’t get an agent. Digging deeper, it seemed that he was under the impression […]

…let there ALWAYS be libraries…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
ELDER PARK LIBRARY …by any stretch of the measurement of age, this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler is no longer a youth… I adulted around a-hem years ago… and having become in recent years an Author, I have more than a passing interest in the comparatively new debate as to whether…

…art covers for Authors?…there was a time, a time there was…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
? …it seems not such an age ago that my frequency of trips from where I live in the Middle East to London was dictated by the need to stock up with physical copy books from Waterstones in Piccadilly… I was what’s prob’ly known as a ‘weight purchaser’…I bought books…

…superb blogger, Allan Hudson, lets me onto his blog today…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…follow Allan’s THE SCRIBBLER,  on allanhudson.blogspot.com Guest Author Seumas Gallacher of Abu Dhabi SEUMAS GALLACHER escaped from the world of finance seven years ago, after a career spanning three continents and five decades. As the self-professed ‘oldest computer Jurassic on the planet’, his headlong immersion into the dizzy world of…

…where have all the bank services gone?… long time passing…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…’fess up time… in a different life, this ol’ Scots Jurassic scribbler was once a banker… a Trainee Master of the Financial Universe… I skulked around as a manager of treasury departments and headed foreign exchange dealing rooms for a coupla decades and threw in some service for another coupla decades…

…self-publishing Authors… are marketing and free Auntie Amazon promos worth it?…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…most of my wunnerful scribbler friends on the Web enjoy the creative writing side of the business, but that same 99.99% are also delighted when the Auntie Amazon sales pages are ticking upward… and this ol’ Jurassic is no different… those of yeez who honour me by reading these blogs…

30 Facebook Groups Every Author Needs…..And It’s Free!

30 Facebook Groups Every Author Needs…..And It’s Free!

Originally posted on Pigeonhole Books:
Posted by A.S. Chung. Award-wining author of children’s picture books A Brand New Day: about divorce and Wishful Wedding: about LGBT equality and same gender families. Creator of Pigeonhole Books and blogs about self-publishing, writing, online book marketing, peer bloggers and illustrators. 30 FACEBOOK GROUPS EVERY AUTHOR NEEDS…..AND IT’S FREE!…

…Indie Authors, there’s only one way to take control of yer self-publishing—like a boss!…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…the most common question most self-publishing scribblers get is, ‘how easy/difficult is it to run yer own stuff as an indie author?’… well, this ol’ Jurassic’s been at it for more than eight years now, and I reckon I’ve learned a few things along the road (maybe that’s a few…

…Authors–caveat emptor re book-selling websites–the final report makes for sorry reading…

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…I promised yeez a round up summary of my recent dabble with book-selling websites… and the final report makes for sorry reading… let me back up and explain for emb’dy coming in fresh to this… as a self-published author, I’m always keen to find and develop non-spamming channels to help…

Grammar program:

Hello wordpressers, I started using Grammarly a few months ago and I like it. It has a free version so if you’d like to try it out I’ve included a link to the site. There is, of course, a premium version but the free version works pretty well for me, for now.  I like getting the…

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